Bathing Fatality at Newton: On Saturday morning a party of four or five young men went to the River Teign, near Buckland Point, Newton, to bathe. The only one well able to swim was the Reve. G. C. Percival but having a cold he did not intend to venture into the water on that occasion. … (description of failed attempt to save Mr. Fingle Holmes, aged 23, clerk at the Newton Bank) … His father for many years has been managing clerk at Messrs. Pinsent and Co. At the inquest held the same evening the jury returned a verdict of “Accidentally drowned.”
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GRO0518 Devonport: John Ball Pinsent: 1819 – 1901